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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] economic analysis and energy cost
Look in the Input Output Reference... section "EnergyPlus Economics".
The first few pages describe the framework and required objects.
ellinas.1984 wrote:
> I have a question concerning calculating monthly power bills using
> EnergyPlus. Ok, each month I have a certain amount of energy
> consumption in kWh for a facility. I have this facility's power bills
> and want to compare their bills to the cost per month calculated from
> the simulation in EnergyPlus. How do I input the energy charge per
> kWh, the ratchet cost, demand cost, and an ECR factor? This rate
> schedule also takes into account the peak kW in determining cost. I
> see the Economics options in idf editor but don't know where to start
> in inputting this information or knowing how to obtain results that I
> could compare with the actual facility power bills. Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
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